Has anyone been bothered by an incessant helicopter-like noise the last couple of days/nights? We’ve been hearing it constantly since Saturday evening (1/11). It sounds like it’s coming from near Fred Meyer, possibly one of the ships docked there? At our house in the middle of the night it sounds like a helicopter is hovering over our house.

After some walking around, I think it’s a generator on the giant Icicle Seafood ship docked by Fred Meyer. A woman at the dock there said it’s being repaired and is running a generator and is hopefully leaving later this week. If you can hear the sound between 10pm – 7am you can report a noise violation. Hopefully they fix the issue or leave soon!

You can’t report a noise violation in an industrial area, we all live in one. It’s called a fishing community and Icicle Seafoods, Peter Pan, Trident and many others employ your friends and neighbors. They also provide the tasty fresh seafood available at your best local markets. Get over yourselves or move back to the suburbs from whence you came.

I called 911 to report a noise complaint. The SPD representative who came to our block watch meeting recommended calling 911 anytime you want the police to check something out (suspicious activity, noise, etc., it doesn’t have to just be life/death situations). All 911 calls are prioritized so the noise complaint goes to the bottom of the list but if the noise is annoying to enough people they might actually be able to do something about it.

I can’t imagine that they’re going to do anything about people complaining about noise on a ship which is going to be leaving for Alaska soon anyways. No matter how you reported it. SPD can barely take care of the actual problem calls like drug deals etc as it is.